2013/2/21 Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin <aharon@google.com>:
> Can we please take it as a given that the language of a piece of data is
> very often unknown to the web application. I know that this is not the case
> at Wikipedia, but generally web apps have to deal with things like user
> generated content, which can be in an arbitrary language and can (and does)
> mix languages, and with information obtained from various databases, which
> do not always declare the language of their data. In addition, even when the
> language of text data is ultimately available at the data source,
> applications are rarely written a-priori to pass that information around
> together with each piece of text data, and modifying an existing app to do
> so is usually a daunting task that rarely makes it to the list of
> priorities. Thus, we must have a solution for isolates that works in the
> absence of the lang attribute. This is what the proposal is about. Once we
> decide how that should be done, we can try to address the lang issue.
Of course. My proposal is about setting default direction according to
language, and only when a language was specified. It is not about
setting direction exclusively according to language.
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